Program Associate – President’s Office

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Internews

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JOB DESCRIPTION

GENERAL FUNCTION

The Program Associate provides executive support to the President’s Office, including administrative support, outreach, development, budgeting, reporting and the daily operations of Internews. The Program Associate also provides support to the Senior VP Strategic Practice on developing the new Internews Strategic Framework.

As Internews is in an exciting phase of advancing our organizational learning and sharing tools, this position will also support the SVP of Technical leadership and the Knowledge Management team, working with our global staff to discover new resources, share skills and solve problems.

You’re an ideal candidate for this position if you have extraordinary written and oral communication skills; great attention to detail and organizational capacity; a love for keeping things moving and on track; a commitment to learn; and the desire to help drive work that ensures access to trusted, quality information for human rights defenders, journalists, and marginalized people around the world. You’ll be doing all this with an amazing team of smart, kind, compassionate, curious colleagues who produce exceptional results.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following; other duties may be assigned:

Under the supervision of the President:

Create first drafts of Board presentations, quarterly Board and staff memos, public presentations, policy papers, including conducting research and drafting correspondence (you need to be able to write really well, think critically, and be creative, even in PowerPoint)

Provide staff and logistical support to biannual Board of Directors meetings, the Board Executive Committee and Task Forces as assigned

Schedule meetings and manage schedules, as requested, for the members of the president’s office

Manage the President’s office engagement with Salesforce, including inputting new contacts collected by the president’s office team

Under the supervision of the Senior VP Strategic Practice:

Maintain work plans and contribute to activities supporting implementation and evolution of our Strategic Framework

Under the supervision of the Senior VP Technical Leadership:

Work closely with the Knowledge Manager on the implementation of knowledge management systems

With the SVP and Knowledge Manager, support production of toolkits and other materials to disseminate program information within the organization (being a great communicator is more important than having a web background; we do really cool work that we love, and we want people inside and outside the organization to know about it. We can teach you the platforms)

Support staff as necessary on the implementation of knowledge management systems and assist to conduct User Experience exercises for relevant knowledge management initiatives (we work in more than 50 countries, so this is a great opportunity to meet amazing folks from all over the world)

Update and maintain select pages on the HIVE, Internews Knowledge management system

Provide support to coordinate various programmatic gender initiatives, including collating gender resources

Working closely with the Senior Policy Advisor, support meeting requests and other public policy outreach opportunities

Serve as a liaison to all members of the President’s Office for non-senior staff. When requested by the President’s office, meet with affiliated groups, students and interested individuals to educate them about Internews

Ability to prioritize and handle multiple on-going assignments and projects

Ability to meet tight deadlines

A good sense of humor

University degree in a relevant field required

Preferred

Familiarity with media or development issues

Non-profit experience

Basic HTML/ CSS and/or WordPress experience

Experience using project management tools (Trello, Asana, etc.)

Language skills in one of the primary Internews languages (Spanish, French, Arabic, Russian)

Interested candidates should submit a cover letter and resume. From there, phone screenings will be conducted in order to determine top finalists for interviews.

This position is being offered and hired by Internews Network. Benefits will be consistent with Internews Network’s offerings and will be reviewed during the hiring process. Additional information can be found on our About Working for Internews page.

Internews Network is an equal opportunity employer. Every qualified applicant will be considered for employment. Internews does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or orientation, genetic information, age, national origin, marital status, disability status, political ideology, military or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. EEO/OFCCP employer.